Read these sentences from paragraph 6 of "How It Feels to Be Colored Me." I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a
low-down dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life,
I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less.
What tone do the author's word choices create?
forgiving
unpitying
distrustful
remorseful